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The great Mosque of Hagia Sophia is here captured on the canvas by Al-Jadar. The humid mediterranean climate of Turkey felt in the image by the atmospheric distortion that the sky and clouds have. The colors are lush greens, milky blues and…

Showing a more isolated and provincial village in this work, Al-Jadar infuses the landscape with huts and small structures. The persons present in the painting are clothed in brightly colored tunics and stand as static, erect columns in front of the…

This work by Al-Jadar depicts the desolate nature of the desert, with the landscape of sand and rock. The vivid sand is warm beige and white, the sky jolts the viewer with an intensity of dark blue and grey. The brush strokes in this painting are…

In this textured rendition, Kahlid al-Rahal has carved out different humanoid shapes in various positions staged to the left two-thirds of the canvas. These figures are highlighted by a contrasting color scheme of vibrant blues with soft yellow and…

In this oil on canvas created by Khalid Al-Rahal, the sense of the natural world is abstracted and turned upside down. The ambiguous setting gives the viewer a sense of uneasiness or lack of place. The human forms seem huddled together in a small…

The scene depicted by Al Jadar captures the pastoral aesthetic of an Iraqi Village. The painterly approach Al Jadar uses in forming the silhouettes of the landscape creates a sense of movement to an otherwise static scene of architectural elements.…

The landscape depicted here is somewhat more ambiguous than that of others painted by Al-Jadar. The colors are rich and saturated and references the changing light at the end of the day. The architecture scene in the distance resides in a focus that…

Another painting from the Iraqi Village series by Al-Jadar, Iraqi Village 3 captures the iconography of the small Iraqi town. The simple and beautiful geometrically based architecture, the palm trees, and market stalls. The villagers are shown…